Non manca molto alla ripresa delle attività didattiche ed uno dei migliori sistemi per "testare" quante "scorie" le vacanze abbiano prodotto nei nostri alunni è quello di proporre loro giochi didattici.
Per questo vi propongo un elenco di ben 40 siti web contenenti giochi educativi di vario genere.
La raccolta, rigorosamente in lingua inglese, è stata curata da Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero.
- ABCya - A great site for games and mobile apps for elementary students.
- Academic Skill Builders - A wonderful site w/ learning through the use of multi-player games. Also, there is an educational portal which allows for student tracking.
- Arcoiris - A nice site for educational games in English and Spanish.
- Braineos - Games based on flash card in a wide variety of subjects.
- BrainNook - A fun site for students that focuses on English & Math. Also, there is a teacher portal w/ lots of resources for educators.
- Bubbabrain - Lots of game for all grade levels that allows teachers to create games too.
- Cackleberries - A virtual world filled w/ educational games for kids 3 - 7 yrs old in a safe environment.
- Clever Island - Excellent games for kids 3 - 8 yrs old in a wide variety subjects such as: Math, Reading, Spelling, etc.
- Cookie - A great site for educational games and teacher resources.
- Creativity Games - Learn through the use of creativity brain training games.
- Creating Music - A fun site for learning music through the use of educational games and other online activities.
- DimensionU - An innovative site for learning math in a 3D virtual world.
- Fish Smarty - Excellent site for online learning through the use of educational games. There is an educational portal for student tracking as well.
- Fuel the Brain - A wonderful site to learn elementary skills such as: Math, Science, and Reading. Lots if educational resources too!
- Funbrain - One of the most popular sites for educational games for kids K - 8 yrs old.
- Funschool - A wide variety of games, activities, and videos for kids.
- Game Classroom - Games for students K - 6th grade in Math and LA w/ lots of resources such as: worksheets, videos, and more.
- Gamequarium - A popular site w/ lots of games in a wide variety of subject areas.
- GameUp - A innovative site from the creators of BrainPop where the games are based on their interactive animated videos.
- Kidz Page - A fun site for educational games PreK - 8th grade.
- Learning Games for Kids - A great site for educational games on lots of different subject areas.
- Lure of the Labyrinth - An innovative game for Middle school PreAlgebra students.
- Magnahigh - Math games for K -12 w/ educational portal.
- MinecraftEdu - A unique game based on the popular PC designed specifically for schools.
- PhyFun - Physics based games for all grade levels.
- Pipo Games - A nice site for educational games for ages 3 - 12 yrs old. A paid site unlocks all the features.
- Play Brighter - A fantastic site filled w/ educational games on a wide variety of subjects, built on their unique anime style interface.
- Play Kids Games - A fun site for educational games in subject areas such as: Math, Vocab, and Geography.
- Power My Learning - A great all-in-one site for education filled w/ games, videos, resources and more.
- Sheppard Software - A nice site w/ lots of games on different subject areas.
- Skoolbo - Wonderful educational games for core skills in the primary grade levels.
- Spelling Connections - A cool site for Spelling and Vocab games w/ educational portal.
- Teaching w/ Portals - A very innovative game based on the Popular console/PC game Portal, w/ lots of lesson plans to be found.
- Tucoola - A great site for skill building games for the younger kids w/ student tracking.
- Tutpup - A cool site for Math and Spelling where kids compete against each other.
- Vedoque - A nice site for educational games PreK - 8th grade.
- What2Learn - A excellent site for educational games where teachers can create games and track students w/ a paid account.
- Yogome - A great site/company w/ lots of innovative games and mobile apps on recycling and more.
- Zondle - Interesting games that support learning and can be embedded into a site.
- ZooWhiz - A fun site for kids 5 - 15 yrs to develop Math and Reading skills by creating their own virtual zoo.